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Championship 2017

Image: @MayoGAA Saturday night is fast approaching and, with it, yet another joust for us with Dublin. Throw-in for the match in MacHale Park is 7pm that evening and the ref is Roscommon’s Paddy Neilan. The ladies’ Division One League match is on beforehand, that one throws in at 5pm. I usually find this previewing-the-opposition post good for refreshing my […]

All this year, the Mayo News football podcast is being sponsored by VaughanShoes.ie, a company headed by Mayo footballer Donal Vaughan which has strong roots within the county while also being at the cutting edge of European footwear fashion. To commemorate the launch of this sponsorship, this week we’ve got a bonus episode of the podcast, the centrepiece of which is an in-depth […]

Image: @MayoGAA It’s definitely time to close the book on last Saturday night’s defeat to Kerry and look ahead instead to our next match in this year’s League campaign. In Round 3 this coming Sunday we face newly-promoted Galway at Pearse Stadium, where throw-in is 2pm and where the LGFA match between the same two counties acts as the curtain-raiser […]

Image: @MayoGAA It’s Thursday already and so the time is running out rapidly ahead of our second match in this year’s National Football League Division One campaign. Kerry are coming to town and Castlebar is sure to be rocking when they do. Throw-in at MacHale Park is 7pm on Saturday evening and Tipperary’s Derek O’Mahoney is the ref for the […]

Image: @MayoGAA It’s definitely time to start thinking seriously about our first opponents in this year’s National Football League Division One campaign. It’s Monaghan we’re up against first and we play them at St Tiernach’s Park in Clones on Sunday where throw-in is set for 2pm. Meath’s David Gough is the man with the whistle for this one. We played […]

Image: Huffington Post A New Year and all that it promises is just up ahead – and it’s great to see so many engaged with yesterday’s runout ahead of next month’s pre-season action – but before the fireworks herald the arrival of 2018 it’s worth giving a final nod back to the year that’s slipping away from us. What a […]

It’s that time of year again, time to sit back, chill out and enjoy the festivities. Time too to give the blog a rest for a few days, not least given that the on-field action gets going once more early in the New Year. But, of course, it’s been restful enough here for several weeks now, in fact ever since […]

Photo: RTÉ Stephen Rochford was on Newstalk’s Off the Ball show last night. In a wide-ranging chat with Joe Molloy and Kevin Kilbane, Stephen looks back on the 2017 season and casts his mind ahead to the coming year. In his usual matter-of-fact way, Stephen deals with the aftermath of this year’s final and gives his view on the outrageously […]

Photo: Mayo News The Mayo News reports today (paper and digital versions) that Kevin Keane is back training with the senior squad ahead of the new season that’s now beginning to loom into view. The Westport defender tore his cruciate in the early stages of the Intermediate club All-Ireland final back in February and he’s been on the long and lonely […]